Kyros had never heard cheers like these before. His eyes brimmed with moved tears as he picked up the Den Den Mushi and said emotionally to the commanders of the other warships, "Did you hear that? This is what the Commander-in-Chief meant by the voice of the people."
"Though they are merely foolish commoners begging us for help under the pirates' cruelty, and once the pirate threat is gone, they will fiercely resist us..." Issho held the Den Den Mushi, in an excellent mood as well. "But yes, their voices do represent the voice of the people. The people desperately want this chaotic age to end."
"The previous Navy barely restrained the pirates at all. Those military bases were nothing but cowardly bullies who picked on the weak and feared the strong. They were like layers of sieves, capable only of filtering out stones of middling size. Back when I was a pirate, I was like a massive boulder. If those sieves did not let me through, they would become enormous holes themselves. So they could only let me pass."
"That kind of sieve was extremely inefficient." Ace's words made both Issho and Kyros nod. After roaming the seas for so many years, they naturally understood this better than anyone.
It was a sieve, but it was also a selection process, filtering out the strong again and again before sending them into the hands of the Four Emperors. Once those great pirates entered the New World, they had nowhere to stand and could only join the Four Emperors in the end, strengthening their forces.
In the end, the Great Pirate Era had gone on for so many years, and the pirates had only grown more rampant. That was inseparable from the Celestial Dragons' exploitation, but was it not also because